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Reconltnending vitamin K prophylaxis in the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding and how to support women when they refuse
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机译：Reconltnending vitamin K prophylaxis in the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding and how to support women when they refuse
Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB) is a rare haemorrhagic disorder affecting the neonate first described by Townsend (1894) as the 'haemorrhagic disease of the newborn'. Yet, the discovery of the deficiency of vitamin K or 'Koagulation factor' was made by Dam (1935). This isolation, and link to neonatal bleeding, led to a substantial (n=13,000) Swedish study by Lehmann (1944) which concluded that neonates who received vitamin K (0.5mg) on their first day of life, experienced a five-fold decrease in the risk of fatal bleeding within their first week of life. Lehmann (1944) estimated vitamin K would save 160:100,000 neonates from dying from VKDB.
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